Opinion Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:23:23 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Hospice care shut out of Ontario budget /item/35387-hospice-care-shut-out-of-ontario-budget /item/35387-hospice-care-shut-out-of-ontario-budget

After Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy finished outlining how his government intended to spend $204 billion in 2023-2024, hospice director Julie Aubé and her team at Maison McColloch Hospice in Sudbury were still dependent on the Sudbury Food Bank to feed patients at the largest hospice in the province.

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mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) Canada Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:51:56 -0400
Journey Home hospice blessed /item/35253-journey-home-hospice-blessed /item/35253-journey-home-hospice-blessed

If the Journey Home Hospice is already a blessing on the lives of TorontoƵapp homeless, itƵapp only fitting that the hospice itself should be blessed.

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mikes@catholicregister.org-sp-1131313561 (Michael Swan) Canada Fri, 10 Feb 2023 06:00:00 -0500
‘Moral distress’ helped spur doctorƵapp hospice resignation /item/35050-moral-distress-helped-spur-doctor-s-hospice-resignation /item/35050-moral-distress-helped-spur-doctor-s-hospice-resignation

After at least five years of signing petitions and writing about his opposition to doctor-assisted suicide, Port Coquitlam, B.C., family physician Dr. Kevin Sclater finally decided to act.

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Canada Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0500
Delta Hospice Society set to rise again /item/34264-delta-hospice-society-set-to-rise-again /item/34264-delta-hospice-society-set-to-rise-again

In some corners of this country there are people for whom the fight over euthanasia will never end. They are in a minority but they are tough and courageous and determined.

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clewis@catholicregister.org (Charles Lewis) Canada Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:17:41 -0400
Peter Stockland: Delta Hospice Society keeps up fight for life /opinion/columnists/item/33632-peter-stockland-delta-hospice-society-keeps-up-fight-for-life /opinion/columnists/item/33632-peter-stockland-delta-hospice-society-keeps-up-fight-for-life

The board of a hospice society in suburban Vancouver is fighting for its pro-life life this October. It is also already looking ahead to new life for palliative care in a continent-wide network of euthanasia-free care centres.

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peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Peter Stockland Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:30:00 -0400
MargaretƵapp Place Hospice a gift of love /item/33451-margaret-s-place-hospice-a-gift-of-love /item/33451-margaret-s-place-hospice-a-gift-of-love

The doors have opened at the newest hospice in the Hamilton, Ont., area as the ribbon was cut on the new MargaretƵapp Place Hospice on the campus of St. JosephƵapp Villa.

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qamundson@catholicregister.private (Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register) Canada Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:46:48 -0400
Charles Lewis: The intolerance of a tolerant nation /opinion/columnists/item/33058-charles-lewis-the-intolerance-of-a-tolerant-nation /opinion/columnists/item/33058-charles-lewis-the-intolerance-of-a-tolerant-nation

I often point out how little we as Christians and social conservatives are respected in Canadian society. ItƵapp as if we are not even citizens and our points of view are so hideous it is taken for granted we deserve to be crushed whenever we articulate our crazy ideas.

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clewis@catholicregister.org (Charles Lewis) Charles Lewis Wed, 05 May 2021 09:01:37 -0400
Peter Stockland: Palliative centre a light in darkness /opinion/columnists/item/33018-peter-stockland-palliative-centre-a-light-in-darkness /opinion/columnists/item/33018-peter-stockland-palliative-centre-a-light-in-darkness

Amid the deep shadows of ever-expanding MAiD and examples of hospice care being brutally extinguished, a gesture of transformation by the Archdiocese of Montreal lights a candle in the dark.

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peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Peter Stockland Sat, 24 Apr 2021 14:30:00 -0400
Supreme Court deals final blow to hospice society /item/33004-supreme-court-deals-final-blow-to-hospice-society /item/33004-supreme-court-deals-final-blow-to-hospice-society

VANCOUVER -- Delta Hospice Society has lost its final legal opportunity to prevent a takeover of its board by euthanasia advocates.

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Canada Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:08:47 -0400
Editorial: Freedom denied /columns/item/32952-editorial-freedom-denied /columns/item/32952-editorial-freedom-denied

The little hospice that refused to give in to the steamrolling politics of so-called “medical assistance in dying” is no more.

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editor@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Editorial) Editorial Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:13:48 -0400